Kaiser Permanente Botches Its Kidney Transplant Center Project Kaiser Permanente is one of the country’s foremost health maintenance organizations (HMOs)‚ also referred to as integrated managed care organizations. HMOs provide health care that is fulfilled by hospitals‚ doctors‚ and other providers with which the HMO has a contract. While Kaiser is a non- profit organization‚ the company earned $ 34.4 billion in revenues in 2007. Kaiser has approximately 170‚000 employees‚ over 13‚000 doctors‚ and
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RELEVANCE & FIELD APPLICATION The kidney is an amazing organ. It makes urine and helps to control your blood pressure. It also keeps your bones strong and healthy‚ and controls manufacture of red blood cells. However‚ this organ is challenged with many diseases and complications. Thus‚ my Research Project is based on one of the most common problem: S KIDNEY STONE FORMATION A RESULT OF PATIENTS’ LIFE STYLE There has been an increase in the number of kidney stone cases at Diagnostic & Specialist
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HOW DOES DISEASE AFFECT THE LEVEL OF ORGANIZATION? * THE KIDNEY There are two kidneys‚ each about the size of a fist‚ located on either side of the spine at the lowest level of the rib cage. Each kidney contains up to a million functioning units called nephrons. A nephron consists of a filtering unit of tiny blood vessels called a glomerulus attached to a tubule. When blood enters the glomerulus‚ it is filtered and the remaining fluid then passes along the tubule. In the tubule‚ chemicals and
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Short Article-Kaiser Permanente Botches Its Kidney Transplant Center Project 1. Classify and describe the problems Kaiser faced in setting up the transplant center. What was the role of information systems and information management in these problems? The information technology based problems that Kaiser faced in setting up the transplant center are use of paperwork‚ lost records‚ incomplete or incorrect date‚ lack of specific procedures for transferring data‚ no process for tracking or responding
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Chronic Kidney Failure Sharvette Walker Rasmussen College Author Note This Annotated Bibliography is being submitted on June 14‚ 2015‚ for Andrea Wochenske M232/MEA2203 Section 11 Pathophysiology- 2015 Spring Quarter course. RENAL CALCULI TELEVISION BROADCAST 1. (2013‚ September 9). Kidney stones serious for women with other conditions Read more: http://www.wbaltv.com/health/kidney-stones-serious-for-women-with-other-conditions/21754828#ixzz3CZjaBA6O. Retrieved from [Television broadcast].
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Because we synthesized the two most common kidney stones‚ calcium oxalate and calcium phosphate‚ we will focus on those two in the discussion of formation‚ treatment‚ and prevention. Calcium stones like calcium oxalate and calcium phosphate stones form when urine is “supersaturated with the constituent ions that comprise the stone” (Figge). This means‚ when urine is supersaturated with calcium and oxalate ion that type of stone is more likely to form. This supersaturation results from the ionic activity
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Tumor Lysis Syndrome by NinjaMom Tumor Lysis Syndrome is a series of metabolic derangements which may begin shortly after the onset of treatment of malignancies. It can lead to any of the following: · hyperphosphatemia · lactic acidosis (metabolic acidosis) · hypocalcemia · hyperuricemia · hyperkalemia · acute renal failure Tumor Lysis Syndrome (TLS): · is caused by the destruction of many rapidly proliferating neoplastic cells · is most commonly associated with
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Case Study- Detecting Dialysis Death’s In mid-August 2001‚ four elderly people were suffering from kidney failure so they underwent Dialysis at Madrid Hospital. After dialysis the people became seriously ill and they died after the Dialysis treatment. The news about the death of patients did not come out. As per laws the hospital sent a legal notice to the maker of the dialysis filter. The company‚ which was making the dialysis filter‚ is a US based company - BAXTER INTERNATIONAL. Baxter international
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in-center hemodialysis. Describing how a family can work as a system in promoting the health of its members. Recognizing the concept of family most used in the in-center dialysis unit along with identifying if it is the most helpful concept for considering family in nursing practice. Finally‚ relating a nursing theory to the dialysis setting. Family would be immediate members to the patient such as spouse‚ parents‚ and children. In the case where patients do not have family that lives nearby or
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Chapter 17 End of life care includes: palliative care- comprehensive care for patients whose disease is not responsive to cure; care also extends to patients’ families; management of psychological‚ social‚ and spiritual problems as well as control of pain and other physical symptoms; to improve pt and family’s quality of life hospice- care provided to terminally ill patient’s and their families; death has been accepted‚ bereavement for family; generally associated with palliative care that is
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